Unit 5 Nelson Mandela教案

tourist: what was life like on robben island?
elias: miserable and cruel. the guards and soldiers treated us badly, beat us violently for no reasons and insulted us in different ways.
tourist: how did you manage to study on robben island?
elias: we studied during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have asleep. we read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words.
tourist: what kinds of job have you ever done?
elias: a miner, an office worker and now a tour guide.
tourist: what do you think of your present job?
elias: i like it very much. and i am proud to show visitors over the prison, for i helped to make our people free in our own land.

iii. guided writing
1. preparation for writing
imagine now mr mandela is in prison. you are going to write a letter to the president of south africa asking him to free nelson mandela. do you remember the format of a letter? what should be the main content of this letter? (the reasons for freeing mandela) how would you try to persuade the president? (you must make your reasons persuasive.)
2. writing a letter
read the information about mandela. discuss with your partner and collect ideas for the letter
writer down the ideas and put them into a good and logical order.
write the letter.
iv. further applying 
1. finding information
go to the library to read or get online to search for more information on nelson mandela. take notes of your finding and do an oral presentation next period.
2. writing a description
write a description of nelson mandela using the information you have found.
v. closing down by sharing
share your letter with your partners and make necessary changes.
share your letter with the class by reading it aloud.

part 2: teaching resources（第二部分：教學(xué)資源）

section 1: a text structure analysis of elias’ story
i. type of writing and summary of the idea
type of writing this is a piece of narrative writing.
main idea of the passage
 elias describes how nelson mandela helped the black people through his own experience
topic sentence of 1st paragraph the time when i first met nelson mandela was a very difficult period of my life.
topic sentence of 2nd paragraph sadly i did not have this passbook because i was not born there and i was worried about whether i would be out of work.
topic sentence of 3rd paragraph the day when nelson mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the happiest day of my life.
topic sentence of 4th paragraph the last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.